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8 May 1885. Browning, Robert to Savile, W. Hale.

8 May 1885. Browning, Robert to Savile, W. Hale.

19, Warwick Crescent, W.
May 8. ’85.
Dear Mr Savile,
Such expressions as you have graced my Birthday with, so kind and sympathetic, make its recurrence anything but the sombre event which, I find, people of my age are used to consider it: for you help me to think I have at least secured a well-wisher like yourself. The paper-knife will remind me always of a neighbourly friend—and,—if you allow me,—a little of the Premier: who asked me once “Whether I was addicted by preference to any

19, Warwick Crescent, W.
May 8. ’85.
Dear Mr Savile,
Such expressions as you have graced my Birthday with, so kind and sympathetic, make its recurrence anything but the sombre event which, I find, people of my age are used to consider it: for you help me to think I have at least secured a well-wisher like yourself. The paper-knife will remind me always of a neighbourly friend—and,—if you allow me,—a little of the Premier: who asked me once “Whether I was addicted by preference to any